Lamentations 4:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children - (Lamentations 2:20; Deuteronomy 28:56-57).

Pitiful - naturally at other times compassionate (Isaiah 49:15). Josephus describes the unnatural act as it took place in the siege under Titus.

Sodden - boiled. [Kaph (k)]

Lamentations 4:10

10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.